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Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin
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Aircraft Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1644

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Xiaojun Wang

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Institute of Solid Mechanics, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: structural reliability; multidisciplinary design optimization; structural health monitoring and digital twin of aircraft
Dr. Lei Wang

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Institute of Solid Mechanics, School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: computational solid mechanics; aircraft structural dynamics; structural reliability; structural topology optimization; dynamic load identification for aircraft structures; structural damage identification and health monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,

The continuous advancement of aircraft technology has brought significant benefits to both production and daily life. However, complex operational conditions such as high speed, high altitude, and strong interference have imposed more demanding requirements on the utilization and maintenance of aircraft structures. This has led to greater safety-related and economic challenges.

To meet the evolving and intricate needs of aircraft structures in terms of operation, maintenance, and lifespan assessment, the fields of health monitoring and digital twin technology for aircraft structures have rapidly progressed and garnered widespread research attention. Structural health monitoring involves the continuous acquisition of pertinent information regarding the safety status of a structure in real-time. This information is crucial for providing early warnings of potential failures.

Digital twin technology has further elevated expectations regarding the precision and swiftness of structural health monitoring. It accomplishes this by creating a real-time, interactive digital representation of an aircraft structure's internal state, external environment, and future behavior. This is achieved through the integration of physical principles and intelligent algorithms.

However, due to various inherent challenges such as noise interference during data collection, uncertainty in analytical models, difficulties in parameter inversion, and the slow evolution of complex models, establishing efficient and accurate health monitoring and digital twin systems that can be trusted for aerospace structures is often a daunting task.

To address these challenges and pioneer breakthroughs in technology, this Special Edition warmly invites contributions focused on issues related to structural health monitoring and digital twin for aerospace structures. Topics of interest encompass, but are not limited to, structural health monitoring, digital twin technology, structural load identification, structural damage identification, the optimization of sensor placement, processing noisy data, the quantification of model uncertainties, the reconstruction of field variables, the identification of structural parameters, updates to and the evolution of twin models, structural strength evaluation, and lifespan prediction.

Prof. Dr. Xiaojun Wang
Dr. Lei Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • aircraft structure
  • structural health monitoring
  • digital twin
  • structural loading identification
  • structural damage identification
  • sensor layout optimization
  • real-time monitoring
  • predictive maintenance

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29 pages, 2631 KiB  
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Preliminary Nose Landing Gear Digital Twin for Damage Detection
by Lucio Pinello, Omar Hassan, Marco Giglio and Claudio Sbarufatti
Aerospace 2024, 11(3), 222; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11030222 - 12 Mar 2024
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An increase in aircraft availability and readiness is one of the most desired characteristics of aircraft fleets. Unforeseen failures cause additional expenses and are particularly critical when thinking about combat jets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For instance, these systems are used under [...] Read more.
An increase in aircraft availability and readiness is one of the most desired characteristics of aircraft fleets. Unforeseen failures cause additional expenses and are particularly critical when thinking about combat jets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). For instance, these systems are used under extreme conditions, and there can be situations where standard maintenance procedures are impractical or unfeasible. Thus, it is important to develop a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) that relies on diagnostic and prognostic algorithms to minimise maintenance downtime, improve safety and availability, and reduce maintenance costs. In particular, within the realm of aircraft structures, landing gear emerges as one of the most intricate systems, comprising several elements, such as actuators, shock absorbers, and structural components. Therefore, this work aims to develop a preliminary digital twin of a nose landing gear and implement diagnostic algorithms within the framework of the Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS). In this context, a digital twin can be used to build a database of signals acquired under healthy and faulty conditions on which damage detection algorithms can be implemented and tested. In particular, two algorithms have been implemented: the first is based on the Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE), while the second relies on the Mahalanobis distance (MD). The algorithms were tested for three nose landing gear subsystems, namely, the steering system, the retraction/extraction system, and the oleo-pneumatic shock absorber. A comparison is made between the two algorithms using the ROC curve and accuracy, assuming equal weight for missed detections and false alarms. The algorithm that uses the Mahalanobis distance demonstrated superior performance, with a lower false alarm rate and higher accuracy compared to the other algorithm. Full article
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